"There is no end to all the peace and joy, And all the
miracles that I will give, When I accept God's Word. Why not today?"

"God's Word," to me, is speaking here of what Jesus, in the
Course, is telling me about my own Identity. It is the truth about what I am. "It
is You I choose, and my Identity along with You. Your Son would be Himself, and
know You as his Father and Creator, and his Love" (1:7-8).

A Christian lecturer who inspired me years ago, Major Ian Thomas, used to
say that man's purpose, my purpose as an individual, is to be "the human
vehicle of the divine content." That is what I am here for. Christ wants to
be Himself in me , in the form of me. I have no other reason for being here,
although the ego thinks I am here to forget God.

The Course teaches that the ego made the world and the body as an attack
against God. It wants to use the world to forget God. The Holy Spirit wants to
use it as a vehicle to remember God. There is no real purpose to anything
except one of those two.

I am here, today as always, to reflect God's Love. I am here to see
innocence. I am here to "look on everyone as brother, and perceive all
things as kindly and as good." (W-pII.14.3:4). I am here to bless my
brothers and to ask them to share my peace and joy.

"Why not today?" (Lesson Title) Why should I wait? These are the
questions the lesson asks.

"I am sure my treasure waits for me, and I need but reach out my hand
to find it. Even now my fingers touch it. It is very close. I need not wait an
instant more to be at peace forever" (1:3-6).

There is no answer to why we wait, because there are no reasons to wait. Nor
has there ever been a reason. All there is to do in response is to let the
constriction in our hearts unknot, to quash the resistance to the flow of Love,
and to open our hearts fully to every living thing. To let ourselves be Love; to
let Love be us. To desist from the belief that we are anything else but Love.

The resistance that feels so great, like a stone wall, is nothing more than
a cloud, unable to stop a feather. Only my belief in its impenetrability makes
it a barrier, like an elephant staked to a tiny peg in the ground, believing it
cannot move because it has been trained to think it is chained to a tree. We
think we are without love; we believe we are unloving. We think the ego stands
like a granite battlement between us and God, keeping Him out.

The ego is a cloud. It could not stop a ping pong ball. It is totally
without strength to resist the Love of God, and it cannot and will not resist.
God's Love stands at the end of time, having already won. Oh, my heart! Open to
that love today! Receive it; give it. Receive it by giving it, and give it by
receiving it. See it everywhere for it is everywhere, in everyone.